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Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection

Fluids traveled 12 miles underground before reaching an abandoned oil well and shooting to the surface. It’s the first scientific proof of a phenomenon local landowners have long warned was occurring.

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune

$Brandon Horton, a driver for Allied Eagle Transports, monitors the transfer of a load of salt water, a byproduct of fracking, to a disposal site south of Midland, Texas, on June 25. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune$

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Study Links Permian Blowouts With Wastewater Injection

Fluids traveled 12 miles underground before reaching an abandoned oil well and shooting to the surface. It’s the first scientific proof of a phenomenon local landowners have long warned was occurring.

By Dylan Baddour, Inside Climate News, and Carlos Nogueras Ramos, Texas Tribune

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